Bam Margera Kidnaps Santa

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The stunmeister discusses the antics making Where the #$&% Is Santa?.

By Chris Carle

Bam Margera has made a career of impromptu stunts, gross-out humor and physical abuse of his friends and family, so the last thing you might him expect to do is make a Christmas movie. But that's exactly what Ye Olde Bammer did. He rounded up some cronies, grabbed some video cameras and head to Finland for his latest effort, Bam Margera Presents: Where the #$&% Is Santa?. We sat down with him to discuss the hijinks.

IGN: So you have a lot of tattoos but you give out a tattoo in this film that's unwelcome. Has anyone ever gotten pissed about that?

Bam Margera: No, it seems like the more crappy and sloppy and if you do it in the heat of the moment; it's way more memorable and meaningful. You know there's always a bunch of girls like, "Oh I got a rose tattooed here and a butterfly tattooed here cuz it resembles blah, blah, blah." It's way better if you have a crappy tattoo of a map of Finland because you're trying to get to the Arctic circle even if it's done really crappy looking, it's a way better tattoo than somebody getting something from a tattoo book in a shop claiming it like it actually means something.

IGN: Why did you settle on a Christmas project?

Margera: Well, I've been to Finland about 22 times now and I hear all the Finish rock bands saying there's an actual Santa castle in a small town in the Artic circle so I got this idea to bring all my buddies up there and try to kidnap the real Santa Claus and bring him back to Pennsylvania.

IGN: Has there ever been a lasting feud with any of the guys?

Bam: Yeah, I mean people get mad but it only lasts for like two or three months and then we become friends again. They know it's just all a part of the fun. I've got six dicks printed on my ass and got a riot bomb shot at me for Jackass 2 and I know it's just a part of the fun and I'm not mad at anybody for it.

IGN: When you do these stunts it looks like everything is in the moment. Is there ever any prep for any of them?

Bam: Not really I mean we just kind of wrote a general script saying we're flying from Pennsylvania to Finland and then we're going to the Arctic circle and whatever happens, happens. So we don't really have a script about any of it. We just go with the flow and that's usually when you get the good footage.

IGN: Was there any memorable injuries on the shoot?

Margera: I think the highlight of it was when Novak ate the dead reindeer eyeball and he got all sick so I gave him some Pringles and he said he felt like he was feeding the eyeball inside of his belly and then the next day he crapped it out in the middle of the street and when it came out there was no poop on it, it was just pure eyeball coming out of his anus.

IGN: He had to swallow it whole right?

Margera: Yeah he didn't want to chew it because he felt like he would probably barf it up so he thought if he just swallowed the whole eyeball he could keep it in his stomach.